‘Planet of the Humans’ Movie Review: Harrowing Eco-Documentary Full Of Hits – And Misses
If you’re looking for good news, look elsewhere. The debate around documentarian Jeff Gibbs‘s first feature Planet of the Humans is a strong one, and both sides are rightfully preaching more than a little doom. There have been a glut of documentaries since 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth about mankind’s disregard for and desecration of the environment, and Planet of the Humans pulls no punches about the damage people are doing to the ecosystems that support them.Collapse of the natural world is not Gibbs’s primary concern, however, and it’s when he wades away from this subject that his claims get...